Hello. This isn't a chapter, but an explanation. I feel you, my readers, deserve an explanation for my hiatus. First of all, let me apologize sincerely for abandoning my stories. I never meant to. All of these stories, they are still playing out in my head like a movie. I plan on finishing them, I'm just not sure when at this point. When I first started writing about Rose and her 2 friends, I thought I was writing about my friendship with my friends. How Mimi and Kianna are there for her no matter what, how they're loyal, brave when Rose needs them to be. Rose is usually the strong one but the thing to remember is, we're all human. We can't be strong all the time, it's simply impossible. And for those times when Rose can't be strong, her friends come in and be strong for her. I thought that was kind of friendship I had with my IRL friends. Something happened though and my friends abandoned me when I needed them the most. It had me questioning everything. I started wondering how I could be writing about Rose's friendship with her friends because I always heard you only write what you know. So how could I know about loyalty, being there for one another, and all the other aspects of Rose's friendship when I haven't even felt it myself with my IRL friends. My IRL friends are not the 2 friends I am writing about in this story, they don't even compare one bit. So it kind of threw me into a depression. That's why I stopped writing. I felt I was writing about things I didn't know, when I'm supposed to be only writing about what I DO know. There are no excuses for me abandoning you, my readers, though. And again, I cannot express how sorry I am. I've done a bit of soul searching. I kept asking people, telling them what happened with my friends and the friendship I am writing about in this story. I kept asking the one question, "how could I write about the kind of friendship Rose has with her 2 friends when I, myself, haven't felt that kind of friendship yet?" A lot of people couldn't answer it. They were just as stumped as me. Then, this guy came out of no where and you know what he told me? He said, "I think Rose and her 2 friends are 3 parts of YOU that are working together to keep YOU alive, breathing, sane." This got me thinking. I thought about it for a long time. One night I finally broke down and started crying. Who would've thought he would be right. As weird as it sounds, Rose and her 2 friends ARE 3 parts of me. Even though my IRL friends abandoned me, I kept seeing Rose's 2 friends and how they are there for Rose and will always be. You would think that after my own friends abandoned me, I would make Rose's friends abandon her. But like I said at the beginning, I still see this story the way I meant to write it. It keeps playing out in my mind; I already know how it ends. I just need the motivation to finish it. I hope this explanation justifies my absence. If it doesn't, then all I could do is apologize. I know that's a lot of pressure to put on just one word, but I do. I'm a person who always tries to say what I'm apologizing about. There are not enough people in this world who say what they are apologizing about. They simply just apologize. I've heard too many apologies without explanation or what they're even apologizing about and that just saddens me. I pity those people who don't try to own up to their mistakes. They just depend on the word "sorry" expecting it to solve all of their problems. Anyways, I'm rambling. Like I said, I WILL finish this story and the other stories I have started. It's all in my mind. I just need to put it into words.